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“Public instruction should be the first object of government.”

Should Firsts Government Objects Instruction

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.”

Feels Should Firsts Turns Environment Tree Valleys Conqueror Egyptian Shingles

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.”

Should Firsts Stills Morning Fields Paid Driving Sunshine Pale Unfair Mist Early Morning Hanging On Wisps

Book:All Creatures Great and Small

Source: All Creatures Great and Small

“For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

Should Firsts Asks Women Path Overcoming Difficulty

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.”

Men World Should Firsts Spirit Father Born Saviour

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands”

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.”

Should Trying Firsts Two Book Reason Reading Teach Hell Impossible Annoying Pigs Impossibility Books And Reading

Author:Will Rogers

“Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.”

Should Firsts Meditation Minutes Yoga Intellect Each Day Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.”

Should Trying Firsts Strong Process Lessons Pure Songwriting Writing Process

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.”

Ifs Should Firsts Care Order Four Land Security Praying Insecurity Quarters Tranquility If You Care Personal Security

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.”

Should Firsts Believe School Next Plans Balance Solutions Gender Decades Engineering

Author:Patrick Awuah, Jr.

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.”

Should Firsts Humans Enough Stories Hands Seems Eye Able Human Beings Fiction Situation Reader Draws Clever Display Imaginary Competent Good Story Hallmark Psych

Author:H. L. Mencken

“So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.”

Should Firsts Important War Fighting Lessons Vietnam Troops Unjust Honored Casualties Unwise Important Lessons American Troops Unjust War

Author:Paul Begala

“Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.”

Ifs Want Should Firsts Looks Answers Economics

Author:Emily Oster

“Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.”

People Ifs Want Should Trying Firsts Class Crime Treats Careful Criminals Staring Be Careful Hobbies First Class

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.”

Should Writing Firsts Two School Lasts Voice Four Minutes Terrible Drama Seven My Best Friend Gigs Gags

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.”

Should Firsts Heart Persons Doe Earth Heaven Felt Imagination Christianity Mankind Serious Relation Doctrine Incarnation Serious Person

Author:James Anthony Froude

“The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.”

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon.”

Should Firsts Worship Built Spheres Ministry

Author:Carl Tuttle

“Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.”

People Should Years Mind Firsts Problem Secret Quality Seven Cease Mathematical Mathematician Associates Seven Years Attics

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.”

Should Firsts Wonder Setting Settings

Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”

Thinking Knows Want Should Writing Trying Firsts Littles Ideas Stories Lines One Thing Theory Reader Tough Opening Invites Tricky Jars Moonbeams

Author:Stephen King

“Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!”

Should Firsts Looks Has Beens Today Born Cities New York Should Have Train New York City Should Have Been Grandeur Terminal

Book:A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

Source: A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

“Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.”

People Should Firsts Believe Language I Believe Class Sun Should Have Marketing First Class Java

Author:Alan Kay

“We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.”

World Should Mind Firsts Humans Two Might Strange Comfort Remains Features Fascinating Our World Human Mind Bizarre Arcane

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?”

Ifs Men Way Should Firsts States Whole Individual Answers Depends Regard Whole Life Therapy Chemicals Autonomy Dependency Replacements Steroid Contraceptives

Author:Germaine Greer

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”

“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.”

Ifs Way Should Firsts Animal Vision Garden Adam Interiors Adam And Eve Renoir

Author:Orson Welles